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...several fronts. Since most of the farmers are Latinos who don't actually live right near the farm, and because the largely African-American neighborhood is the only area in Los Angeles to have lost jobs since 1992, the locals are on Horowitz's side: they'd rather raze the farm and build a warehouse. "We don't need some dingdong like Daryl Hannah going on TV and saying people need fresh air," says city councilwoman Jan Perry. "They also need jobs." An urban planner, Perry points out, would spread the community gardening money around the whole city instead...
...woman to land a triple Axel in competition. Those youngsters were busy pushing the sport to new levels of excellence, but would they continue to bother if the results were fixed? Embarrassed and under pressure from the International Olympic Committee to reform, the International Skating Union (I.S.U.) decided to raze and rebuild...
...night in New Orleans these days, compared with about half a million before Katrina. The city that care forgot is in the throes of an identity crisis, torn between its shady, bead-tossing past and the sanitized Disneyland future some envision. With no clear direction on whether to raze or rebuild, the 300,000 residents who fled the region are frustrated--and increasingly indecisive--about returning. If they do come back, will there be jobs good enough to stay for? If they do rebuild, will the levees be strong enough to protect them? They can't shake the feeling that...
...Standard World's Fair fare, really. But what's different about the Nagoya exhibition is this: when the show is over in September and all 15 million expected visitors have gone home, the government will raze the expo, recycle the construction materials and reinstate the children's park. Other former expo host cities may proudly flout their rusting space needles and rocket-ride pavilions on postcards as reminders of glory days past, but not Nagoya. This city is moving too fast to be anchored down by white elephants-in-waiting. After all, in 30 years we may all be breathing...
...petition offices. This petitioners' village, with its desperate residents pushing plastic bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only to see it sprout anew like some stubborn weed. This year, the demolition began in late January in preparation for the March 5 commencement of the NPC. Li barely escaped the security officials who hustled petitioners into vans to send them back to their hometowns. He lost...